Rent Ghost Stories: Vol.5 (2005)
3.8 of 5 from 10 ratings
1h 19min
- General info
- Available formats
- All series
- Synopsis:
As a Christmas treat in the late 1960s and 70s, the BBC produced adaptations of ghost stories based on the works of M R James, the Cambridge academic and author of some of the most spine-tingling tales in the English language, which were broadcast to terrified viewers in the dead of winter.
A View from a Hill (2005)When young museum curator Fanshawe is sent to catalogue a debt-laden squire's archaeological collection, he uses a pair of homemade binoculars borrowed from his genial host to survey local 'Gallows Hill'. The glasses seem to give him a strange new ability and, ignoring all warnings about their necromantic creator, Fanshawe carries out his historical researches. But the bloody past of the area is best left undisturbed.
Number 13 (2006)
Dissatisfied with his hotel room, Professor Anderson demands to be moved to number 12 where he can work undisturbed. But, infuriated by the ghoulish noises made nightly by his neighbour, he is soon driven to investigate the diabolical secrets of the old hotel and its mysteriously vanishing room 13.- Actors:
- Mark Letheren, Pip Torrens, David Burke, Simon Linnell, Neil Findlater, Greg Wise, Paul Freeman, Tom Burke, Charlotte Comer, Anton Saunders
- Directors:
- Luke Watson, Pier Wilkie
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Horror, TV Mysteries, TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy, TV Thrillers
